Michael Clarke notched his 10th Test century as he and the Australian tail mowed their way to 445 all out in the third Test in Sydney on Sunday.
South Africa is in the ascendancy in the third Test against Australia after the first day at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday.
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/ 30 December 2008
South Africa have every right to call themselves the world’s best team after their nine-wicket victory in the second Test in Melbourne on Tuesday.
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/ 29 December 2008
It’s now or never for South Africa as they finished the fourth day of the second Test against Australia on 30 without loss in Melbourne on Monday.
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/ 28 December 2008
South Africa wriggled off the hook and even managed to snare an improbable lead on the third day of the second Test against Australia on Sunday.
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/ 27 December 2008
South Africa were calling for rain or miracles as they ended the third day of the second Test against Australia on 198 for seven, or 196 runs behind.
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/ 26 December 2008
Ricky Ponting ripped the bowlers to shreds but South Africa still managed to pick up six wickets on an enthralling first day of the second Test.
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/ 25 December 2008
SA had every reason to look back fondly on 2008, a year in which Allen Stanford became a name known to all fans and Australia came back to the pack.
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/ 30 November 2008
South African captain Graeme Smith looked ahead to a world Test championship showdown with Australia after his side crushed Bangladesh by an innings.
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/ 28 November 2008
A one-sided first Test against Bangladesh failed to get in the way of the most important announcement of the week: the SA team to tour Australia.
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/ 19 November 2008
Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla both scored centuries as SA got among the runs on the rain-interrupted opening day of the first Castle Lager Test.
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/ 14 November 2008
Herschelle Gibbs was a mirage. In the shimmering distance he appeared corporeal, but on closer inspection there was nothing there.
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/ 9 November 2008
Hashim Amla made a maiden one-day international century as South Africa beat Bangladesh by 128 runs in the second one-day international.
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/ 8 November 2008
Proteas captain Graeme Smith is likely to return to action in the second MTN one-day international (ODI) against Bangladesh at Willowmoore Park.
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/ 7 November 2008
If T20 is cricket for the lowest common denominator then the South African selectors are to be congratulated.
England moved to a 4-0 lead in their five-match one-day series against SA when they won a rain-hit game by seven wickets at Lord’s on Sunday.
South African coach Mickey Arthur has warned his players they are fighting for their places following their one-day series loss to England.
England captain Kevin Pietersen said he would go for the jugular after seeing his side take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the one-day series against SA.
Kevin Pietersen scored 90 not out and then claimed two wickets to inspire his England team to a 20-run victory over South Africa.
AB de Villiers scored 97 on Sunday to give South Africa an outside chance of winning the fourth and final Test against England at the Oval.
A defiant innings by AB de Villiers held up England’s charge towards victory on the fourth day of the fourth and final Test against South Africa.
England and South Africa were both hopeful of winning the fourth and final Test even though rain allowed only 82 minutes of play on the third day.
Last week Kevin Pietersen was just another ego, strutting towards middle age in preparation for his departure to the great trailer park in the sky.
Kevin Pietersen had a frustrating first morning as England captain as South Africa reached 64 for one at lunch on the first day of the fourth Test.
Andrew Flintoff said his feisty bowling spell against South Africa on Thursday made all the rehab work after his fourth ankle operation worthwhile.
The freak dismissal of Andrew Strauss sparked a collapse for England as they went to lunch on 82 for three after making a solid start.
South Africa will display bowling firepower reminiscent of the great West Indies side of the 1980s at Lord’s this week.
A bittersweet legacy from the brutalities of the apartheid years lingers in South African sport. Only whites represented the republic until 1970.